Al-Andalus, Sepharad and Medieval Iberia

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The 12 articles of this volume show the many facets of contact in al-Andalus and Medieval Iberia, reminding us of how contact influenced art and learning in a wide range of fields: politics, science, philosophy, music and religion; offering views of how contact between societies affects both language, stereotype and assimilation; examining how war and conflict (re)define the representation of ideas, places and people; and demonstrating how representations changed over time through contact and conflict. Lessons of the past apply today as al-Andalus captures the modern imagination and cultures continue to come into contact across borders which either allow fluid diffusion of ideas or block passage.... linguistic culture, from men who were accustomed to moving from one code to
another, be they Mozar- abs of Toledo or Jews of Aguilar. ... It also appears in
northern Castile, rendered as hi in several early Romance documents copied in
the mid-thirteenth-century cartulary of the Premonstraten- ... See Lapesa 136. 39
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Al-Andalus, Sepharad and Medieval Iberia

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Ivy A. Corfis

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BRILL - 2009

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